Hancock estimates that the statues on Easter Island, known as Moai heads, are likely much older than the platforms, called Ahu Vinapu, on which many of them sit because the structures exhibit ...

According to archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg—who is the founder of UCLA's Easter Island Statue Project and has studied the artifacts for nearly 30 years—about 95 percent of the statues were ...

Recent research on Easter Island, published in the Plos One ... to their platform in the 1970s. Two of the statues are missing their heads and parts of their bodies. The moai at Ahu Nau Nau ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos ... "A total of 887 monolithic statues has been located by the survey to date on Easter Island...397 are still in ...

He shakes his head. “How did they do it ... by UCLA archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, director of the Easter Island Statue Project—but that required both a lot of wood and a lot of ...

Named Easter Island by the Dutch ... Then he points to a few broken heads and bodies on the slope below and laughs. “Obviously, accidents were allowed.” When a statue was almost complete ...

With one rope around the head of the statue and another ... rough terrain is 320 feet per day for a 20-ton statue. Moai: Two original Easter Island moais: nine feet, five tons and 13 feet, nine ...

Today we're on an island far out in the Pacific ... their beaks touching at the back of the statue's neck. On the back of the statue's head are two stylised canoe paddles, each with what looks ...

Today we're on an island far out in the Pacific ... their beaks touching at the back of the statue's neck. On the back of the statue's head are two stylised canoe paddles, each with what looks ...